- Luis Van Rooten, Operation Eichmann, 1960. Coming from B-Western producer RG Springsteen, this was hardly the most definitive portrayal of the life, capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi architect of Hitler’s Final Solution. And, indeed, difficult to accept a few years later when the two main actors, Werner Klemperer and John Banning, TV favourites as comic Nazis in the TV POW camp comedy series, Hogan’s Heroes, 1965-1971. The German-born Lindt refused to play Nazis in his Hollywood carter) and was replaced as Himmler by Rooten, a previous screen-Himmler in The Hitler Gang, 1943.
Birth year: 1902Death year: 1971Other name: Casting Calls: 1